Posted on 12/08/2021 12:31:23 PM PST by Red Badger
We are at a time and place in late 2021 where it literally has become acceptable to ponder the exclusion of a specific race of people from a college party.
That is, if the race is white.
A student at Swarthmore College last week penned an entire op-ed on this topic as a situation arose which — allegedly — warranted the ejection of Caucasians at the small, private institution near Philadelphia.
In The Phoenix, economics major Sameer Halepoto points to a pre-Thanksgiving party hosted by the Swarthmore Queer Union, Swarthmore African Student Association, Swarthmore ENLACE, and the Swarthmore African-American Student Society which had filled up rather quickly.
Halepoto says “typical [Swarthmore] parties include an outsized number of white students (many of whom are athletes), making it harder for marginalized groups to feel welcome.”
As a result, party organizers blared a repeating electronic message through speakers which warned that white people had to leave.
“To be fair” to the organizers, Halepoto writes, they were in a “lose-lose situation.” Apparently they attempted to create a “safe space” for marginalized groups and to make a “concerted effort to include affinity groups within settings occupied by non-marginalized people.”
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But keep in mind white people can be queer and/or Latinx. Halepoto wonders how many whites who remained after the “get out” warning actually were either: Did the announcement create “an incentive for students to falsely identify with a marginalized identity”?
Halepoto also (ridiculously tactfully) says it’s “fair to question” whether telling whites to leave was “the optimal solution to creating a more inclusive party” considering it violates college rules for official student groups. In addition, it “sow[s] further division on campus at a time when such issues are especially salient.”
From the op-ed:
When it comes to including marginalized groups — like those represented by the hosts at Paces on Saturday night — students’ approaches are often at odds with each other. We want safe spaces that are exclusively occupied by a given marginalized group. At the same time, we want to do more to center marginalized groups in settings occupied by white people, which would necessitate interaction between marginalized groups and white people. Racial exclusion, however, does not contribute to either and goes against the type of community we strive to cultivate at [Swarthmore].
Racial exclusion and trying to achieve the equilibrium ratio of white:BIPOC at a party only creates an illusion of equality. It creates a temporary feeling of control for some and resentment for others when we could be using such events to create spaces that center marginalized groups and welcome allies simultaneously.
According to his Linkedin page, Halepoto “create[s] a welcoming and inclusive environment for new students” as a Swarthmore teaching assistant, and also works as a private consultant for “socially conscious firms.”
The Swarthmore student paper has a history of somewhat inane editorials; in 2016 it apologized for an op-ed (in an editorial titled “We Fucked Up”) which told students to “stop whining” about their affluent peers. And a year ago, the paper advocated for a critical race theory graduation requirement.
They're also the dumb bumblers using the wrong product and having to be corrected by some woman or person of color.
They should do it but keep it secret.
“Go to war against each other to get the last food or the last things they haven’t broken?”
Yes. Exhibit “A” - A big chunk of Africa.
If Norman Bates was a POC.
Yes, you are correct.
I believe they are or they are very high up and dictate show structures.
Very interesting, I have not heard that.
“Halepoto says “typical [Swarthmore] parties include an outsized number of white students (many of whom are athletes), making it harder for marginalized groups to feel welcome.”
Ironic since there is no group more marginalized on college campuses than heterosexual white males.
LOL....send that pic to this article’s numbskull author.
Broke, busted, disgusted, agents can’t be trusted
You’re right.
...and “Michi” wants to go to the sea”
John Phillips was a horrible human being but he wrote quite a few iconic songs and his vocal arranging was second to no one.
Although “California Dreaming” was a catalyst for me to move from Ohio to Hollywood with the petite blonde (literal) “girl next door”, the song “Even If I Could” is a hidden gem and my favorite M&P song.
Fun fact...I read somewhere Cass had a 165 IQ to go with her powerful voice.
One of the hallmarks of communism is to polarize a singular entity and humiliate it. White males are the target today.
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